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HO LSE OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. OttFORD and - the Bishop•of ELY took the oaths aild't heir seats. ' • Lord: LivEaroot, informed the House, in refe rotiee-to 9.esterny - n - Ntsble - Pa; 0" o.oid Carysfort) that a copy of the only in wunions which were .Mr, mere, were arriZiCthe pa r a y then .upon . tiie`f able. The N6ble of State then' pointed 'our the document, wiiitiii . Obviated the intended motion of that Noble l'eurypon the subje& this evening. Oi the motion o - f Lord iluettLAiin, it was ordered, that therehe Ltid.before the - House an account of the numbers of. men .deserted from the enemy's troops, and ealidted ih the,i3ritiih forces in Spain and P0r ,11.15,i4, ial the course of the year 1808. • - Li ! td GItEY, in answer to a question from the N e .-hle, Secretary of State upon the point, stated, 64. hi ) intended motion of Friday would respect the pro.. .of the eondua of his IViajesty's Ministers, re ',lnv,- to ;lib h wlcampaigus in Spain and Portugal, and added, that , should their Lordships agree with lihn in his proposition, tLeir decision would not be favourable to that' eobdua. 'A Gentleman, from ihe Crown Office in Ireland, presented at the tsar the Official return of the dee- lion of Lord Mbantjoy, as a Representative Peer of reland,• in the toom of the late Marquis ofSligo.— , 'l2; e 13 . ilis upon the table were forwarded in their re spoctive stages.--Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OP COMMONS. w EDNBSDAY, APRIL t 9. Mr. HURST 1»()Vt:4 the second reading of the Hor li-./,/../ Coo:m.)1111n, yms K E opposed the, Bill, on the ground of injury thp the town cat Ryegate Mould sustain 1,-/) ;; ;/, ata., of ow d. , ..ogcr-that might result to case parallel lines bf road in the county of Su,s, , x. being allowed to exist. He moved as an anmt n. tp,lit, that it be read a 'second time on this . , •:, • Mr, defended the Bill. 'lt- went to improve f• the wort roads in the kin,„adom,' carrieq t broa L li a ..cowl ry .abounding with the finest tini. whith could - coat' at present in many seasons be b i . o . lt on away., .kle.strentiotrily urged that it should .111 owed to g,r) into _a Ccrnmittee. On a diOsion ;appeared- •. &r the Bill .s.l.!—Against it f 23.— i.6l;ljtlrity f 4 9. • 'fie Bill was then read a second, time, and order ed to he colnwitted. • ' • The . Cotrirnittee on the Irish Constables': Bill was peqironed to Friday. Irish lecognizarep , Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be conmiittecl on Monday. • 11t1814 . COMMIssION14tS' FEES.IIIII... ]'Jr. kosmk moved the Order.of the• Day fur Cdc.. Stg;c:id rearing o t this l'ltNet.t., YOSV, not for the purpose of oppos ing the Bill, hnt with a view of asking the Right GelAoro Nit ' h_tlit:t tuiy titw regulations had tiecn adopted in 4.•ptitoiniity with the Report of the eyortnis.tioners before the pointed GM parl 4 .ol the Report which colupiNneel of • fl4::er in which ti 4; ;I;,,i;:•,;sed taxes !lad b4eci g:1- tl - wri3l its Irelartzl 4: inattention to the cnstorn Jx.vs hod the coaLitin; trade ; the unintelligible and manner in Which the collator* kept their wink, and the Manlier in which the dutie4 had b: en toile6,:d the spirirs, had arnounted'in one year tc blreiy i i 4,0001.. I.‘• Len; had they been fairly col s leeterl, they would. 'have exceeded two millions sterinm. • The duty on auetions had been equally tat glt.;:tecf : he mew ioned : "a•case at Cork, when the stuns collected in- one yearamounted to were than three shillings.. lie .then adverted to the teogennettdatiois of .the Commissioners for licensing the stills alter the Manner ofAhe low 4andi of Scot , land ;.suelt wholesome advice, he thought, aught Ire -attended to. Another point recommended by the Commissionen, *as a - change in the mode of , rating subordinate officers, which, if intended t tvc.ulii be productive, of the happiestxffecis. On, the whrle, hsm Coutended,, that if proper attention were pill tip the collection of existing taxes, there vv nu i t ln e no rxe iNiO:l for any fresh ones. Mr, i'orvi‘La tratd the lionontahle Gentletnim bad taken him rather tinawJres by the qui:snarls he had, p it) r tie . wok.sid, litmeter, answer them satis tw !ordyss he could. Use Report to which , the I:lo.,t,ntrable Member had referred, had been made iti 1;tr• year 1803, and the complaint upon the inan :no,. ~:‘,11e,.11:11 ; e the assessed taxes' had since been i.atent.ted in, and wire likely . to be more pro, , . nov. , 1.1,41 evet-.- There itad . been ,rest it: the .t nd the cottfiting trade, but they i „)".l~'t(lo6,lci,.ecl. The Collet:toes accounts t:teu criainly in a confze:i state, and it,waS 111:1;f't; ii-,•.p?,s•il;ic.‘ to know .what they were.- As to 1:40.-1,.:.‘1ron,,in.litica at the Commissioners fur the i . ot officers, .he considered t wholly un c x~:,:c.tt;,;i.►ui_; tst,tc,rit hstanciirtg ilLlOlher method had he thoughi should be cantino P; " PloPtilY it , Of Tito tr•tild4 in the distillate* ri•)tPtiott'i tint '11(i hoped: - through the inter-' !:110..: GI coijiltly add tootles which 1,;e: nee.n adopu:d, woald cease, The me,' iicentiing ) tins was now under ; and v. 111) thy had a proof of the homsty. they might. be enabled to license ; till iltt.y took them out of the bands they could hardly be honest • for their inadequate to their t:in ti.o‘, the/ were placed in a situation :‘ tila ..vould deservedly satue,4l them to Run i s h. t,it, if- they - nezhzaud thcir daty. tnus'nnich, ha - recointreaded the confirm ,ince of the Cornintssioners, and the second reading or t h e Bill few words from) Colonei. tarry, .Mr. Fos. w,,y, d GetiL-rai lita Bill was read a second 01...kt . ed to be cointnitted ott this day Cwninitiee on the aritish Ships Bill was (tt..13 till to-morthw. C:om-assio:late Fund Bill went.through/a Ctsilltaf. . 111,: , Iteport of welch was ordered to be rtocived to•tnorn,w. • „ t „, J.v:Atyrikv, atiluded to some extraordioary ' c i, A rgi-:4 in tpe -Extraordinuies of the Army, and 51. fed into ,tion of akin g Y. the.= the sulvt,t, of itA prOCt:e(ili7g. este PONSONBY wished the Right Hon. Gentle. w er e slain. More than 3000 were put to the sword man .opposite would ; have the.goodness to inform 1 . . . him NV hetlicr or net - the Right HonsSecretarY of : by the cavalry. State for Foreign Affairs would be- in his place to- i We have lost but 30 killed and 6o wounded.— morrow, Ass ls.was desirous of putting several ques- i Colonel GIRAUD of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons tious to film eeticerning the affairs of Spain ; in par- was stverely wo u n d ed b y a ball. The Colonel of titular with respea to that p as sa g e of M r . F re re s. letter to Sir J. Moore, in which Mr: Frere told Sir . Dutch Hussars was also wounded. 'General SEDAS- J:•Mooreethatshls Messenger would - explain to' hiriel e . iiirt praises' ieccee . ' dingier'. the Chief of his Staff the 'reasons by which he was . actuated in his ads. 1 e , i , *hoe the 'daY before the battle, crossed vice. There were other questions also relating to ; m °t ". l.lEo Spain, Which he wished 'to put to - the Right Hon. 1 the Gnadiana,in company with Gen. MILIIAUD, in Secretary. . , I Oder to prevent the bridge bei n g b ro k en , in which . , The. CHANC4 H LOR of th e EXCEQUHR replied, l he succeeded. General MILHAUD, his offi , and that be could not be positive whether or not his 1 Right Hon. Friend would attend in his place to-more troopa r disiinguishedthemselves. row, but that he would.errdeayour to qualify himself The following day the fugitives were pursued by , tO render a satisfaaory answer to the Right Hou. the cav al ry and t w o pi . the ene m y ' s Generals, who; Gentleman. • , . ~ ,t hem, were slain. General - S • .Were among The. House then respired itself into a Cornrnittee TIAN! was, on the eeeh e at the foot of the Sierra on the Bankrupt Law Atnendment Bill, in which • Morena, .and found himself oti.a line with the Duke the consideration of the variona clauses were pro ceeded with: of &MM (N'teeo e) who must already leave ad . On the clause being read by which a bankrupt, vaneed beyond Merida.' alter he had obtained his certificate, but before he j • At the same moment that General SEBASTIANZ had given' his release fur his alloWances, was to be captured Ciudad Real, and arrived at the foot of the rendered a competent v.intess in any cause .relating Sierra Morena, the Duke of Mono won the battle to his estate in which his assignees were the claitnants, *,' . of Merida. Sir S. Rothe .Y, in order to obviate some objet- The troops of reserve of Seville, Badajos, and An.. lions which existed against this clause, proposed as . . . enema, were colleaed together, rind placed in ord e r an amendment, that the bankrupt' should not be so rendered a competent witness, uutil lie had given II of battle by General CLTESTA, upon an elevated plain, release as to his inter es t in the particular matter at , between Donbenite and Medellin r and which was issue. . .. . covered -by the Guadiana. Thiearmy, formed in A long discussion ensued, in which the Attorney ' and Solicitor Generals, Mr. Jacob, Mr. Wilson; Mr, F three lines, was supported by batteries ; -. . . . Steeveos e Sir. S. Romilly, Mr. Morris, and Sir C. ' As soon as the Duke of Beet t iikti - n,A , iiirved this, Price participated.. It was contended, on the One be commanded the cavalry of;Generals LASALLE and hand, that this clause would introduce an anomaly 5..1 e .. into the rules of evidence ;on the Other, - the elope., !Aviv a MAUBOURG to p lace themselvessioan obliqu e elope., . , diency of putting an end' to fi ttitious•leleaSeS, w hich line ; and lie Order e d aenerat Level. i 6 Olace him were now so common, 'ttri".i maintained j as also the self with the division of the - Princes -of. the Conte justice of rendering that indiyidoal a competent wit- ' • ' mess, who, in most cases, Was 140 best witness that deratioo of the Rhine, in a el94e:Olumn between ',could posfibly .be .obtained. Eventually, the clause, the above-mentioned. cavalry.'. • Ile strengthened him As amended by Sir S. Romilly s Was -agreed to. . - with fourteen pieces o f artillery', rnu !and placed the di- A cenyersetion: between Mr. TCroker, SiieSael en t h e visions of VILLATIS and R UFFIN i n t h e . rear . ROmilly e and.the SoliCitor s Geueral tools place 'Clause fpr empowering the Lord Chancellor, Lord • The Duke of Belluno .attaelsed the left wing of 'Keeper, or Lords Commissioners'for the titue being, the enemy, and instantly threw it `into confusion iutead .9( personal service, to creditors of Irish i s • fhe centre and right wing were also routed. Seven bankrupts in England, and vice versa, to empower the creditors in the country of the ban krupt to giver thousand Spaniards remained upon the'peld of bat intimation in the DUblin - or London Gazettes, as j tlee 3000 were made prisoners; the remainder are the case might be: The clause was afterwards I dispersed. Thirty pieces of cannon and nine. co agreed to. Another lenethened discussion took place on th e leers have fallen i ti t o our ha n d s .' . ; clause for giving the bankrupt an appeal to the Lord, - This important engagement has laid open Seville !Ow:metier s if ell or filar - fifths his creditors re- to us. The :fugitives are eursued with the utmost • . fused to sign his certificate, l'ile A.ttoruey-General . aaivity. On the 4th *of March, the advanced guard wished the number to be- limited, in which Mr. Jiciib - agreed with him.... Mrs Abercroinhise. Sir C. • of the 'Duke of Bellu no w as already arrived on the .. , , ,• original right side of.B a d a j os , an d i t h oped to unite itself Price, and Mr, Steevetis supported the clause. • with the Ale o f D a l mat i a , w h o i t is thought, lies ' The SOLICITOR-GENIZRAL opposed it, as he thought' lit would press hard on u noinerono elo§4, mtfo, „wlO i already entered 'Lisbon."-e(ltionifeurs, ,April 9.) bethought were equally entitled to tlieir.attention and j ~.P Aitts, APRIL tie—The bead-quarteriSif the Duke . humanity, wilt the bankrtipts, the hOnestand suffer i , - Bi s o n s / tri km , of ASSENA) are still at.Ultn, and those of ins creditors • as the clause:would ;Bice them to 'sign. the certificate ofstlic bankrupt, howev e r un- • Gen. OUDIN OT a t St ras b urg h . T he Chief of the principled his conduCt mieht•appeer, apd thus wen.. Staff of this General assumes the title, ' Chief of tenance (liege fiends he wished to preYent. 13 pro s : the star efe the /3 d , ... o y or .neserve of th e Ithinish posed that three-fourth of the creelittes should be . substituted for fOur fifths, 4nd that;the law in other. • Army." , . . respects should remain as it now Elands. • Concerning th e d e p artur e of the. Emperor, nothing . Sir. S. Riietreev, in reply, to prove that creditors is known with certainty. ' . • in this country can unjustly persecute a bankrupt, c •.• ! A . . ONSTANTINoPLE, APRIL 1.2. 5 ......1110, treaty of adverted tothe case of a man who writ kept in prison , through the malignity of his assiguee- {who had re- ; peace with Ragland has been . published bete ; it peatedly declared he should only be removed from s consists 'of twelve articles, and contains no very re hismeltable proVisibrei, It treats merely of termi prison to hiegraye), from the tnontlf.of Octob e r 18.06, to the beginning of !KM: The state of the . • nation of hostilities, and th e l i b erty of - commerce be debtor's health was then stated,- on the authority of a physician, to be such, through his iinpriSonment, .tween ,the two people. that unless removed he could not in all probability: , C LiTI/T(IAIiD, APRIL 4.—TLI King repair e d this outlive a fortnight. A petition was presented to, , . orni• • - ng to Ludwigsburg, whither the Que en will '; • the Lord Chancellor, who humanely adva nce d it, m when a new detainer war lodged against li inn hrough :go to-morrow. . . .. ~ .. the intrigues of his assignee. A new petiti o n was The General of Division VANOAMM E went this !day to Heidenheine where the head-quarters of the preferred, which the Lord Chancellor likewise acf vanced, but some unavoidable delays occurring, the :. e bankrupt died ; and died through " the continerneht Wirtemberk; troops, arc establish ; :d, WhiCh by virtue he bad, suffered from the inveterate hatred of his as- of nit order from his Majesty the Emperor. Nein signee. He did not take uport himself to say, that. j 1•EON are to be placed u n d er his conemancL the conduct of th e bapkrupt had not been such as to ' . incur diciest resentment of hiecreditor ; but surely OARLSIttIkIE, APRIL '4.—T4e Marshal Duke of no instances of dishonesty on his part could' justify . Istria (BEsstattas) arrived 'here yesterday, and pure such rigour ;it was theretere improper to'sufler that sued his journey to Pforzheimi The Prin&t of Neuf power to remain in the hands of an etasperated ine dividual. A very incorrecletam teent had made been chalet is arrived at Se• as hn rg h. of the number. of uncertificated bankrupts now i n . FRANTSPoiri s APAIL,'9.;---Darmitadt troops have prison. Instead of hetastetz 20 and 30, he had as- marched towards Dillingen s from Mergentheim, by eerta;ned there were upwards of 100 within the r ton Mend of rho Marshal D u ke o f Ri vo li. • walls of the king's Bench, the Rules, and the Fl eet Prtsott. ~ ' On the Bth, the Nassau troops marched towards .After e few words from Mr: Wresote, the clause- - - FtetticOhia, iiforder to unite with the corps of the was agreed to. . Duke Of AVERSTAAT. I Several otherclatiies were then brought up, and , • !Ana W, AFI3IL 1.-411 Austrian - Gallicia: to after seme.diacussion agreed to. „ Mr. WEIAEToN brought up the Repertof the Bill, battalions of Feecibles have been formed, Of whiCh which was received,. and ordered to 'be 'taken into six have already joined the regular. army in the neigh further consideration on 'Thursday ,stennight. The Bill with its ainendrpentswes.Ordered to be printed. ► bourhisod of:Cracan. Eacit'of these battalions con Adjourned at half past twelve. - - . sista of 800 men,- and the number of regular troops in the Whole province amounts to 18,006 They expel too to be reinforced from the Hungarian In sUrreaion: DUTCH PAPERS. MADRID, APazr. 2.—General 8213ASTIANI an nounceii from Sahta Cruz at the foot of the Sierra Morena, under date of the 29th 'of March, that on , • • the v7th he descried the Spanish army of Andalusia, to which were joined a vast number ,of peasants, stationed in order of battle before Ciudad Real ; that he advanced against them, rooted, and destroy ed them without any resistance; that on the 2rith the feeble remains of that army, Were on the other side of the Sierra Morena;' and that the p - rodtree i)l this atrair was 4000 prisoners of war,' 7 standards, and 18 pieces of cannon. Among the prisoners of war are -197 office% of whom 4 are Colonels, ands 7 W orders w repair to the frontiers. RATSBON, Arai'. b.—From day to day' it looks . more srzrlite in our neighbourhood. AcCordiagler a flying report, the Archduke CHARLIS was to lease the capital on the vd of April, in order to proceed to Weds. The principal Austrian force stands_onthst— Ems. The number of troops which bars:marched towards the Inn amounts to 3000. But it is observed, that among the,Austrions,there is much marching and counter-marching, ax - well from Anplin 'to Bo- Uremia, as from those,qUartera to Carinthia; and Car. rtiola: hence it is uncertain on which side the &voter number of troops are: The Divisions of Carlll St. Ayr, Legttp . cl,; Boudet, and Molitor, art still conformed -betWeetilfii! Lech stpd the liter. I\TAEtcztls..-.-The preparations for` de. fence still continue. From Hungary We team, that tile :52 counties have not poly furnished the pour reEtion with the troops rehired, but even volunta rily organize still more troops.. In Presburgh, besides therinsurretlion, 6ao cs valry and two battalions of 11000 y have been SUP plied. Other counties hare seers like exainple. Also the chief Nobility and Nogales hav e ( N u . i PP e troops at their own expellee. PAWS, Ara It. 6.—Major Lai Gaotrox,',4l4os. 4.,....., Camp to the Duke of Suderinani*, is thrived with a Swedish OfficistTettarged - WitrarsiCardir 3 from his Court. • TO CORRESPONDENTS.. *** We are very sotry . that we have been un a ble t continue our insertion of the Historical recital of 800 NAP AitTIC eiltrAtC)/ in ITAiY, which So completely developer hil Military Cbaraaer and Coudu:t ; but we hope to resume the subjed To-morrow, or next Day at farthest. ARRIVED—I Dublin. Gottenbutgh, t Lisbon, Waterford. 1 1 1tICE OF STOCKS THIS D y AT TWKILVX O'CLOCK. Consols . ...... . • 67i THE SUN. lOLly 111,111 DICIRRIt r41.14U)4 AUDI*? r s A -',LONDON, THURSDAY, lifltlt 20, 1809.' • Yesterday afternoon' Caatain SCHOMBERGI Qf M. S. Loire, arrived%' at ihe from th. fc s Coast of Spain. The , oire was sent out sometime aci with* supply of arms and nun onitioa, fat I Marquis . de RomaNk's arti)y. ' 441 ' 41 were 11. r 41' landed at Finisterre. The accounts which Optain SCUOMBIRG has brought from the Marquis de Rod, MAMA are of the most satisfatiory nature: If ap- , pears that no less than three anions have-taken pllre between t!,.. armies of the Marquis de llorantiA and, Gen. SOULT, in all Of which the former had so de cidedly the advantage, that SOULT was driven out of Gallicia ; so that in fad the invasion of Portugg l , was, on his part, a matter of necessity, -rat of: choice. It is further stated, that the French's/ 01 Y, 13 in so distressed a state, that unless Gen. sato can .derive effedual assistance from the co-operatio n of General VICTOR from the Southward, he will, i n all probability, be compelled to surrender. Th e whole male poptgation of GalliCia, we are happy l a add, is up in arms against the French, who are fr''' confined to the Fortresses of Fermi arid Coruna:l, Admiral Aropt,c.A. has given an order for 40)" ° !teddies, between six and seven thousand of wit id j i have already been embarked at P ortsm outh,' have sailed for Cadiz, and the order is going 011 the rate of between twelve-and fifteen bundred week. This order was transmitted by the Junta °' Seville; and is paid for by the Spanish Government' We last night receivedr.Dutek Perpers, to the 16/b Instant. They contain an account of'sotno portant successps obtained by the i?rench in t `' . ; South Spain. We entertain, however , str° D9 hopes ,that these accounts, 'if not altogether will be found to be very much exaggerated, 17 7 1 cause we have been repeatedly informed, the same channel, of the total defeat apd hilation of the, Marquis Di ROMAN at'a • A ll* though it now app e a rs th at , i ns t e ad of being Ae. feated, he has been abje to drive SoULT out of 63. liCia. ............... On the tidings of the, several Movements, the p o .. Dispatches were sent last night from the secre 6l ,s 1 liolCtrocips. which were on the: Ruisian frontiers, of State's Office to Portsmouth, COP" bi the Succes s Frigate, to Mr. Avant, at , broke up'on the 2ecl, and Since- the day betbri yes- tino 1" pe. • / Willia ° terday, have been on. the march towards`the borders The lion. Captain BOYLE, of the R°Va . ' o ne COlnalltoil , of Gallicia. One . column marches on this side . the Guard Ship at Spithead, is appointed a ca Ilan of P . of the Transport Board in the -room, Vistula, by Radom; and the other, on the further i - ' 'ow 11Y, deceased. ( be side By' Lublin. , The. troops are to ,be cantoned on A commercial regulation has been made b y ~ KO frontiers • the till fort .ier orders. • Junta at Seville, highly favourable to the in i t l e Inv to be torwar,az, • The Saxon troof.s are marching successfully into with this country. Eve species of Britts i , r 4;n; failure is , to be S Aotly ; and on the other hand we ex d 'and f ' 'ftl • remote dpetw'';,. o f pet ,other or the convenience o the admitted .. initao the t P p : I :a: J ( 1 ) 1 4 iijeS d t he moo - , national troops from Thorn or iiintaii. The troo ps ' of the . Empire .n the western u ori , , c o . i ion° b - i bacallass of which there is such a prod g 1 soot g sure'plion; ^is to tic 'received , thither, amount to /2,000. men. 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